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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Remnick compare Memorial to?
(a) The Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
(b) Buchenwald Monument.
(c) Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
(d) Dachau Memorial.

2. How long after Gorbachev's 1989 visit to Berlin did the Berlin wall collapse?
(a) Four weeks.
(b) 60 days.
(c) A month.
(d) One year.

3. For what amount of time was the May Day parade in Moscow calm and uneventful?
(a) 10 minutes.
(b) An hour.
(c) 30 minutes.
(d) Two hours.

4. Who came from Iowa to coach baseball?
(a) Bob Protexter.
(b) Richard Spooner.
(c) Alex Pryor.
(d) David Kauffman.

5. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?
(a) They were told by the camp commandant.
(b) The camp foreman was wearing Medvedev's wool jacket.
(c) They saw him shot.
(d) The camp commandant was wearing Medvedev's wool hat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who betrayed Aleksandr Medvedev?

2. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?

3. What sport was popular in the Soviet Union in the seventies?

4. What does one Eveni descendant say the Soviets did to his people?

5. What happened to the Eveni once they were herded into villages by the Soviets?

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